Chicago police sensitivity training video
This comes my way via Everything is Terrible! Excellent.
This comes my way via Everything is Terrible! Excellent.
What separates the mind of a scientist (or, more generally, a rationalist) from the average person? Sent my way by Brother Doug. xkcd – A Webcomic – The Difference.
Today, Kat and I went to view the wonders on display at the International Museum of Surgical Science, here in Chicago. What an excellent way to spend an afternoon. They have piles and piles of bonesaws. Was everybody into amputation back in the olden days? Other highlights — a full recreation of a 19th century … Read more
This is kind of interesting. Back in 1969, when man was first walking on the moon, Pink Floyd were in a BBC television studio, jamming improvisationally. There exists a recording, which has been mashed with some moon landing footage. Behold: According to David Gilmour: “At the time, Pink Floyd had been doing rather well. For … Read more
Oh, man. This is a really, really bad idea from Microsoft. On the other hand, it’s going to mean some easy money for me. Let me remind you, my friend, that my computer-fixin’ rates are quite reasonable. “…Windows XP users, including the millions who have recently snapped up cheap, XP-powered netbooks, will first have to … Read more
Another thing that came my way via the excellent Overcoming Bias site. The author of this piece, Paul Starr, is a professor of Sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, and he floats the idea that public subsidies of investigative journalism might be one way to combat the deluge of journalists that have given up … Read more
This is a neat little mash-up. Say you want to know what people in your geographic area have to say on a particular subject. It’s trivially easy to find out with this map of tweets by subject. Or, to be more clear, choose a geographic area using the Google map, and then type in a … Read more
Two Fingers = Amon Tobin and Doubleclick. Self-titled album available from Big Dada ( a Ninja Tune spin-off). Here’s their Myspace page for some free samples. You’re welcome.
This came my way because of a thread on Less Wrong about recommended reading for new rationalists. Eliezer Yudkowski is a very bright fellow, and this little quote comes from somewhat mathematical lesson on what constitutes a “technical explanation,” as opposed to a verbal explanation. “Remember Spock from Star Trek? Spock often says something along … Read more
This came my way via mental_floss, which has a bunch of videos of Richard Feynman explaining things. I like it a lot. via YouTube – Feynman: Ways of thinking (Part One of Two).